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From: whitneyq
Date: Aug 21, 2016 1:28PM

Depending on what the documents look like, you might be better off OCRing them, correcting the markup (and typos) in a word processor, and then making th he accessible PDF.
You get a better PDF and recover the source file.



-------- Original message --------From: "Dominic Capuano (gmail)" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > Date: 8/19/16 2:27 PM (GMT-05:00) To: 'Angela French' < <EMAIL REMOVED> >, 'WebAim Forum' < <EMAIL REMOVED> > Subject: Re: [WebAIM] scanning documents to PDF and accessibility
Angela;

I think that you might have to go in through Acrobat and manually add tags.
I have had to do this with a document and it is not fun. I would be very
interested to see if someone else has a better idea.

Dominic Capuano
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-----Original Message-----
From: Angela French [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, August 19, 2016 1:24 PM
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Subject: [WebAIM] scanning documents to PDF and accessibility

Hello,
Is it possible for documents to be scanned to PDF and be accessible?   We
are getting PDF documents to post on our website that have been scanned.
They are failing the accessibility scan in Acrobat which sees them as
images.  How are documents like this remediated?

Do techniques like this create accessible documents:
https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/scan-documents-pdf.html


Angela French
Internet/Intranet Specialist
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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